Mister James Teaches English

A story has some basic elements: a beginning, a middle and an end. It has characters, and action. It usual has tension, a climax and a resolution. We will talk about these things mean in class. Here are some websites to give you ideas about how to make a story: The Plot Generator Storybird

"If I can tell you something today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind for that matter." -Rat Man (page 56) "I mean, good Lord, how much can these kids take before they'll go crazy on their own?" - Female WICKED worker (page 205) "Too bad we'll never see the end of the Trials.''I know' the man answers. "But the future will thank us.'" -WICKED workers(page 206) "He imagined her having come all this way only to be killed by a vicious man-made creature. He thought of the Grievers..." -narrator (page 332) ” I really liked the concept of the scorch and how it is just miles and miles of desert wasteland. One of the reasons I liked it was because it’s all based on nature; anything dangerous that happens is usually caused by nature and so it wasn’t as though the Gladers could fight off any monsters because everything that’s happening is kind of natural. It’s interesting seeing th...

Making your own comic, either on paper or online is fun and it can teach you a lot about characters, setting and plot -  terms we talked about last week. Check out these sites for tools and templates to make your own comics in English: https://picklebums.com/free- printable-comic-book- templates/ https://picklebums.com/images/ printables/picklebums_ comicpages_big.pdf Comics. Graphic novels.  In   Comics , stories or information are given using pictures, or pictures and words together. In comics, a story is told with many pictures, mostly in   panels . The first panel is supposed to be read first, and takes place earlier in time than the panels that follow it. There are many kinds of comics.  Comic strips  are short comics which are often found in newspapers.  Comic books  are thin comics magazines.  Graphic novels  are books of comics. In  Japan , comics are very popular, and Japanese comics are popular around t...